[swift-dev] Requiring Xcode 7.3 to build Swift master for Apple platforms?

Andrew Hyatt ahyattdev at icloud.com
Tue Mar 29 13:29:30 CDT 2016


Agreed. The minimum OS X version for Xcode 7.3 is 10.11.0, which would make El Capitan required to run Swift 3.0. 

- Andrew Hyatt
ahyattdev at icloud.com

> On Mar 29, 2016, at 11:23, David Abraham via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Would this be a temporary limitation? I'd prefer to see Swift available to any development environment even on Apple Platforms.  It contributes to the message of openness. 
> 
> -Dave 
> 
> Enviado desde mi iPhone
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>> El mar 29, 2016, a las 2:02 PM, Joe Groff via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org> escribió:
>> 
>> Xcode 7.3 included a fix for the Apple linker that's necessary to support some of the metadata format changes we're making in Swift 3. I have some workarounds in place that I'd like to remove since they suppress linker coalescing of some constant strings. Would anyone object to us requiring using Xcode 7.3 to develop Swift for OS X and other Apple platforms? If not, we could conditionalize the workarounds behind a flag, though that's additional complexity and testing surface I'd like to avoid.
>> 
>> -Joe
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